Good evening. Unfortunately, we need feedback, so we need feedback. So good evening good evening on behalf of our faculty, staff, as students, we would like to welcome you all today. This is our fifth town hall meeting that we have sponsored here at harrisstowe, and i will be attending a meeting in the morning regarding systemic meeting systemic problems within a community. We are looking forward to a fruitful dialogue that will go on and continue to has to stomach impacts on continue to have systemic impact on our community. We look forward to having a great program. [applause] systemic impact on or community. We look forward to having a great program. [laughter] [applause] good evening everyones. Everyone. I am here to actually be a very brief and introduce you to our moderator and get under way. Our moderator is mr. Bob butler, and he is the president of the association of black journalists. He flew all the way here are this event from california. He has been in the industry for 20
He has been is to mental in directing coverage from the Government Regarding the shooting from the government the shooting of Michael Brown. And hel,hris has had an awardwinning career tom career, this is bill fry google freigle. Is patricia bynes. Rafford, andrred his photos have been shown on national television, mr. Bradley rayford. And some of you may have already known our last panelist, her social media reports really drove the Media Coverage, not just locally, but nationally. How many followers did you have on twitter at that time . First i started with 1500. And now i have 13 30,000. Twitter really does work. Before theney situation, and she covered ferguson wallcovering while planning for her wedding. , by the way, i was not invited to. You could have come. [laughter] well, ok. [laughter] of town hall lot meetings here, talking about police, talking about city leaders, talking about voting, talking about not voting, to let me ask you each, your perspective. Maria, i will start
It is full of intrigue and turmoil and lots of fingerpointing. Who wrote this mustread . None other than former treasury secretary tim geithner. Really, he did. In his new book appropriately titled stress test, geithner recounts the financial crisis and the white houses response to it. Geithner also writes about the anxiety caused over one Major Administration decision. Whether or not president obama should appoint Elizabeth Warren to head the Consumer Protection finance bureau. Though the bureau was her brainchild, everyone in the room knew she had no chance of being confirmed. So president obama ultimately chose to do this in 2010 secretary geithner and i both agree that elizabeth is the best person to stand this agency up. She was the architect behind the idea for a consumer watchdog. So it only makes sense that she should be the architect working with secretary of the treasury geithner in standing up the agency. Did you hear what the president said . Instead of nominating the agenc
Service personnel, posted at the residence. A vehicle was observed driving by at a high raped by one of the agents. The Vice President was not home at the time. Searches will be taking place outside the residence now to see if there are any rounds that can be recovered or if any rounds hit the structure. I should tell you Vice President s residence in delaware is several hundred yards away from the main road where these shots were fired. As i mentioned, well have more on this developing here. I want to get to paris. Top surviving editor of Charlie Hebdo is speaking for the first time about the slaughter at his office in paris and the controversial cover image published wednesday of the Prophet Muhammad. A guest standing by to talk about what that editor said. Caroline knows him and the Staff Members to died. She used to work for the magazine. Shes been one of the staunchest supporters of it. Caroline caroline let me express my condolence for your friends. I know you returned from a Mem
Does the press underplay the blue wave . Well talk about that. Plus, a major scandal in the news world. Houston chronicle forced to retract multiple stories from a reporter who is believed to have been making up source ofs. Ha did the chronicle do about it . Well talk to the papers top d editor. And well talk to tucker about what happened at i had home and why police are now investigating. Lots to get to, but first President Trumps attempts to distract from various negative stories in the news. Not the least of which were the results of the midterms and the gops losses in the house. What did he do the next day . He fired his attorney general and he kicked jim acosta out of the white house. Im sure youve heard by now that on wednesday night cn,s chief White House Correspondent tried to show up for his 8 00 p. M. Live shot waends told was n and he was told he was not allowed in the white house property. His press pass has been suspend until further notice. This is not about jim acosta. T